{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.national-football-league","code":"thing-q370883","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q370883/","name":"National Football League","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The National Football League was an association football league competition in India held between 1996 and 2007.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise the National Football League, assess its competition and institutional state, and determine which league-related actions require evidence or authority.","scope":{"in":["Competition identity, authoritative naming and the period from 1996 to 2007 are included.","Club participation and competition divisions in each season are included.","Competition governance, decision rights and approval requirements are included.","Season organisation, qualification rules and championship determination are included.","Competition rules, competitive integrity and enforcement are included.","Relationships governing player participation and commercial rights are included."],"out":["Individual match events, play-by-play records and stadium operations are outside this model.","Independent models of clubs, owners, players and coaches are outside this model.","Association football as a sport across all leagues and levels is outside this model.","Other Indian or international football competitions are outside this model except for their documented relationships to this competition.","The United States American football league with the same name is outside this model.","Individual employment contracts, medical records and media productions are outside this model."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The referent is India's National Football League competition held between 1996 and 2007, rather than one season or match.","Its sport is association football, and its name must not be resolved to the United States American football league.","Clubs participated in the competition, while players and coaches participated through teams and applicable eligibility arrangements.","Competition-level decisions concern shared rules and organising authority rather than a club's internal decisions.","Historical participation, results and rules require records tied to the relevant season."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"league-identity-and-membership","name":"League identity and membership","description":"Recognises the continuing NFL and the franchises that constitute its competition at a given time.","layers":[{"id":"institutional-continuity","name":"Institutional continuity","description":"Separates the NFL's identity from historical names, related entities and recurring 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proposal can be treated as effective?","id":"approval-authority-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"rules-and-review","name":"Rules and review","description":"Separates playing-rule application from league discipline and identifies applicable review procedures.","findings":[{"id":"rule-applicability-and-disposition","name":"Rule applicability and disposition","description":"Associate each assessed incident with the relevant rule version, decision-maker and review status.","questions":[{"text":"Is the issue governed by on-field playing rules, a league conduct policy or a collectively negotiated procedure?","id":"rule-applicability-and-disposition-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which review or appeal route applies, and what evidence establishes whether the ruling is final or still contested?","id":"rule-applicability-and-disposition-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"participation-and-commercial-rights","name":"Participation and commercial rights","description":"Connects NFL operations to 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unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of National Football League this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of National Football League this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of National Football League this model covers, and on what 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